i once heard posed an interesting question:

if you could quantify both your beauty and your intellect and then place them in even ratios side by side, and then were given the opportunity to decrease one and augment the other in equal proportions, would you alter either? if so, how much beauty would you 'sell' in order to gain a few IQ points? or would you sacrifice a few points for the opportunity to experience a greater degree of physical beauty? i wonder if our inclinations would change one way or the other depending on our emotional and physical maturity. anyone care to share their take on this?